Bronwen Wilson

Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and Director of the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. Her scholarship interrogates early modern European (1300-1700) artistic and urban cultures through lenses of space, print, portraiture, landscape, and transcultural/material interactions.

• Research Grants:
  • SSHRC (2021-2026): Making Green Worlds: Early Modern Art and Ecologies of Globalization
  • UCHRI (2020-2022): On the Sea and Coastal Ecologies
• Key Collaborations:
  • Co-editor of 'Making Worlds' series (Toronto/Bologna/Edinburgh Presses)
  • Co-director of international research networks with Angela Vanhaelen and Paul Yachnin

Publications span lithic formations in Mediterranean art, Venetian-Ottoman visual dialogues, and Renaissance spatial epistemologies. Awards include the 2006 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History. Teaching emphasizes materiality, globalization, and visual knowledge production.